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Mining & the mines, 1915

4,404 stories in Sydney's papers · page 81 of 221

NO. 2 Jury Court. (Before Mr. Justice Ferguson and a jury of four.) Injured in a Colliery. Henderson v E. Vickory and Sons

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 May 1915 · page 10

Mr. Watt and Mr. Tighe, instructed by Mr. Cecil A. Coghlan and Co., appenred for the plaintiff in each case; and Mr. Windeyer, instructed by Messrs. McLachlan and Murray,…

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Miners' Lost Wages. £500 in Seven Weeks. Wollongong

The Sun · Sunday 2 May 1915 · page 8

The trouble at the Corrimal Colliery caused by the alteration of cavilling conditions has been settled after seven weeks stoppage, and work will be resumed on Tuesday…

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Mining Stock New Issue of Trong Tin

Sunday Times · Sunday 2 May 1915 · page 4

Additional capital is being secured for the Trong Tin Company, Federated Malay Straits, the snares of which are largely held in Sydney, by an issue of 6000 tully paid up shares at par…

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Share Market. All Sections Inactive. Mining Scrip Easier

The Sun · Sunday 2 May 1915 · page 3

The local investment market had been quiet throughout last week, and yesterday was no exception to the rule. The business transacted chiefly centred around the…

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Finance— Mining—Produce Markets Investments Quiet Advance in I.O.A.

Sunday Times · Sunday 2 May 1915 · page 4

The investment market during the past week was comparatively quiet, and in a large number of cases a weakness in quotations was apparent…

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Mines and Mining. Share Market Active. Barriers Weaker

The Sun · Monday 3 May 1915 · page 3

A much improved volume of business was in transacted in mining scrip on the Sydney Stock Exchange to-day, but the tone of the market, especially for Barriers, was far from…

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Miners' Federation Trouble

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 May 1915 · page 7

LONDON, Sunday.--The Miners' Conference has unanimously rejected tho employers' offer for an immediate, increase, and and has decided to leave its claim for…

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Short of Coal

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 May 1915 · page 8

WELLINGTON, Sunday.--The steamer Mathilda, from Talcahuano put in here short of coal. She was 31 days out, and burned the wooden deck fittings to make port…

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Mining Notes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 May 1915 · page 11

A telegram from the Hampdon-Cionearry Copper Minos, Limited, states:—"Hampdan mine; No. 3 shaft, 350ft level, stripping on the west side of N.E. drive to 14ft shows…

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Sundown Tin and Copper Mine

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 May 1915 · page 11

Early in April the plant and machinery of the Sundown Tin and Copper Mining Company, Limited, at Bullandean, a few miles across the Queensland border, in the Stanthorpe district, was started in the…

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In and About the Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 May 1915 · page 10

Mr. W. A. Freeman, chairman or the Austral Malay Tin, Limited, has been officially authorised to report the following yield of Kamunting Tin Dredging, Limited (London flotation)…

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Coal Crisis. Negotiations Fail. London, May 1

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 May 1915 · page 10

Negotiations in connection with the crisis in the coal trade have broken down, and it is feared that only immediate Government action can prevent a strike on…

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Mining Shares. Tin Scrip Improving

Evening News · Monday 3 May 1915 · page 5

The week opened slack in a number of Barriers. Including Hills, British, North Brokens, Souths, Junction Norths, and Junction, Hampdens charged lands at 25s 9d, a drop of 2d…

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Mining. Prices Current on 'Change

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 May 1915 · page 10

Saturday's trade on the mining section of the Sydney Stock Exchange was unusually restricted, even for a week-end. Three stocks were responsible for five transactions…

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Coal Truck Shortage. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 May 1915 · page 5

Sir,—I really think it is about time that someone took up the cudgels about the shortage af railway coal trucks. I am interested in the coal trade in the northern districts,…

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Australian Notes. Gold Reserve, £10,096,028. MELBOURNE

The Sun · Monday 3 May 1915 · page 5

A Treasury statement issued to-day showed that 9,200,401 Australian notes of a total value of £27,925,185 have now been issued, this being un increase of £1,258,927 since…

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Mining. Timorous Market. Buyers and Sellers Cautious. Sound Metal Values

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 May 1915 · page 11

The chief features of the Stock Exchange during the past week were, first, the disturbing effect caused by the presumedly less satisfactory character of the war news from…

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Sites for State Coal Mine

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 4 May 1915 · page 4

The N.S.W.. Minister for Mines (Mr. Estell) stated on Wednesday that he was at present preparing a bill for presentation to Parliament upon its reassembling…

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Mine Fatality

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 May 1915 · page 11

ZEEHAN, TAS., Monday.--Arthur Chandler (39), employed at the Dreadnought Boulder tin mine. North Dundas, sustained an injury on Saturday morning, from which he died yesterday…

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Mining Notes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 May 1915 · page 13

The May Queen Gold-mining Company (W.A.) was yesterday placed on the official list of the Sydney Stock Exchange. The authorised capital us £11,000, in 44,000 shares,…

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